Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:
I would prefer to not have an editor which modify completely the file I
am working on (ie. automatically replace tab by spaces). When working on
big project, you cannot assume that everybody use spaces-based editor,
and you still want to minimize the diff size of your patches.
That is the whole issue. If you work in a big project wherein everyone
can you use their own "tab length", maintaining consistent indentation
is difficult (if not impossible). As Romain Bardou pointed out, you
can even use the same editors with differing "tab length". Real messy.
And the bigger the project and the longer it needs maintenance the worse
it gets.
BTW, I believe all editors are "space based" :-)
HF.
Thomas
2008/10/23 Romain Bardou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
That's actually nearly what Camelia has right now. Right now
Camelia
insists on not dealing with tabs at all -- it converts them
all to
spaces. This "feature" has to go obviously, and it's a
few-liner to
convert between characters (which include tabs) and columns.
What do you mean with this? Reason I ask is that in OcalIDE an
option to
save files with spaces only, was added because it allows one to
simultaneously edit files in various editors, each with its own tab
"length". If not, indenting is not maintained. I myself think that
avoiding tabs altogether is a good solution.
I agree.
Even without changing your editor, you can change the tab length.
Moreover, if the editor uses tabs and counts them as more than one
character (default behavior of emacs) it won't be able to locate
errors correctly.
Finally, when you use backspace to delete one space and suddenly it
deletes eight of them because it was actually a tab, it's annoying
because it's unpredictable.
Altogether, this means that if you edit a file and put tabs in it,
it may work for you, but it may annoy the people you give your file
to :p
--
Romain Bardou
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